Swans are caught and their wings' flight feathers are clipped, or pinioned. |
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Ariel and Audrey were trapped in the corner, pinioned by several of the girls. |
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Within seconds he had me pinioned on my back, his own weight pressing me down. |
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Thomas had her pinioned on the bed and was intent on making good his promise. |
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There he was pinioned to the floor by devices with smooth jaws similar to the trap that had taken him. |
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Though her arms were pinioned back by the soldiers, she threw herself on her knees before the ruler. |
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The drunk, singular in his rebellion, had bitten her hand while they pinioned his limbs down. |
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When Blakewell awoke, his hands were pinioned behind the small of his back, and his shoulders, waist and arms were tied. |
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But before he could finish his sentence, he felt his legs pinioned by a frantic set of arms. |
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Gaulier bends her at the waist, her arms pinioned behind her, and karate-chops her back. |
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Students pinioned his leg to prevent any involuntary movement when the surgeon cut into his flesh. |
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Finally, with a magnificent sense of the dramatic, we were pinioned by headlights against a wall in a blind alley. |
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He cried out and tried to get away, but the stranger pinioned him down with inhuman strength. |
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Then she went up and held on to him, pinioned him, her head on his left shoulder. |
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She felt them tighten the strap around her waist and realized that she was now quite securely pinioned. |
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Its horn blared ceaselessly, jammed by the dead body of the driver, Henri Paul, pinioned on the steering column by the impact. |
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Then, at some moment mercifully unwitnessed, an attempt to rise higher, to fly, met by an all but invisible limit, beating wings pinioned, deep instinct denied. |
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Or a gunman shoots the pinioned victim through the kneecaps, perhaps also the elbows. |
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Oh, Mr. Goose, it appears that you are pinioned behind a wall of chain! |
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In his haste to escape he fell and was pinioned between the stalks. |
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In spite of the fact that this gesture mimics that of Christ pinioned to the Cross, she also looks perfectly serene as she travels, as if to have been caught up in this way was almost inevitable. |
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These balloons have been set loose as mischief-makers, lightening the threat of sculptural severity, giving a lightsome, fantastical air to what might otherwise have been gravely pinioned. |
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The result was one of the totemic pictures of the strike – Scargill, each arm pinioned by a police offer, the unrepentant martyr on his way to jail. |
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Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter. |
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